AMPS 2019 Power Connections Awards

SAVE THE DATE Thursday 28 November, 2019 The Midland Hotel, Manchester, M60 2DS

Tickets £175pp or £1,650 per table of 10 (+VAT)*

*Once your booking has been confirmed by AMPS, it is non-cancellable, but substitute delegates may attend. Settlement of the invoice is due upon receipt. No place(s) will be secured and attendance to the event may be denied if payment has not been received.

Please contact Natalie Burrows events@amps.org.uk

This event is a great opportunity to salute those people who have achieved success within the Gen Set industry over the last year and to meet up with other AMPS members. Tickets are limited to just 150 so don't delay in booking yours.

We look forward to receiving your nominations for AMPS members, whether for an individual employee or your own company. Entry and rules are very simple, and this is your chance to shout about those people or companies who you think have made a difference.

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

We’re offering individual companies the opportunity to sponsor any one of the Awards – by doing so you’ll be supporting the event, showing your enthusiasm for the category and be associated with extraordinary achievement. Individual award Sponsorship costs £995.00 + VAT and includes the following:

• Your company logo on all Awards publicity material

• Your logo etched onto the relevant category Award trophy

• A full-page advert within the Awards programme

• Presentation of the category Award trophy to the winner

THE AWARDS

INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY AWARD

Awarded for development of an innovative product, process, service or innovative way of working. Entrants must be able to demonstrate the development within the last 18 months of an innovative product, process, service, or way of working. The entry must include a clear written description of the development and its background, including details of the benefits obtained.

The panel is looking for evidence of the following: Commercial relevance of the development and actual or projected commercial success, benefit of the development to the business or customer, how the idea was implemented within your business and the impact the idea has made upon your business.

EXPORTER OF THE YEAR

The Judges are looking for achievements in entering new markets or first-time export success and/or new ways of achieving export success.

EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR AWARD

This employee may be any individual connected to your business and does not need to be someone necessarily directly involved with genset manufacture, servicing, sales or similar. Awarded to the employee who meets one or more of the following competencies or criteria: Job knowledge and understanding of responsibilities and related work, quality of work, level of productivity, teamwork, flexibility, initiative and leadership, going “the extra mile”.

COMPANY WELL-BEING & HEALTH AWARD

This award celebrates those employers that can demonstrate they put the health and wellbeing of their employees at the heart of their culture. Where the business leadership champion a strategy of encouraging good physical, mental, social and/ or financial wellbeing for their employees. Judges will be looking for evidence of commitment and/ or specific projects designed to meet this cultural change.

PROJECT OF THE YEAR AWARD

The judges are looking for details of a project, whether that’s a physical installation, nonphysical solution, or similar that has completed in the last year and which demonstrates great teamwork and/or an innovative solution and/ or overcoming a major difficulty.

APPRENTICE OF THE YEAR

This award seeks to celebrate the exceptional contribution made by the apprentice to the workplace, their success and commitment. Judges want to see evidence of how the apprentice is meeting these success criteria.

COMPANY OF THE YEAR

More than just a great employer or successful business, the winner of this award will demonstrate stand-out success whether that’s in overcoming business challenges, developing new brands or markets, or outstanding sustained growth. The Judges are looking for evidence of corporate excellence.

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER I SUBMIT MY ENTRY?

STAGE 1

All applications will receive e-mail confirmation of their application. All applications received are sorted into their different categories. Each application is then scrutinized by a qualified panel with the objective of selecting a shortlist for each Category. Note: At this stage the Panel reserves the right to include an application in a category not originally nominated by the applicant if they consider the application has sufficient merit in this Category to justify inclusion. The applicant will be notified of such a move.

STAGE 2

Shortlisted companies may be asked to submit additional information as requested by the panel to support their statements or be visited by one or more members of the judging panel.

The additional information is then scrutinized by the panel with the objective of selecting a shortlist of 3 companies for each Category.

Although the target is to select three Finalists in each Category sometimes it is difficult to be selective between two applications. In such cases The Judging Panel are asked to include more than three Finalists in a particular Category. This discretion is only with the prior approval of the Judging Panel.

The selected Finalists will be contacted and notified of their success. This stage immediately prompts the delivery of an ‘AMPS Awards 2019 nominee’ badge that can be used for promotional purposes – an appropriate and timely reminder to staff and customers alike as to the status already achieved in this competition.

All information given throughout the judging process is treated in confidence and suitably destroyed once the process is complete. Information given is not disclosed to any other third party without prior consent.

The Winners for each Category are duly selected from the information available.

The Panel’s decision is always final.

STAGE 3 – THE AWARDS CEREMONY

This is the icing on the cake. In the tradition of all good Award Ceremonies. The AMPS Awards Evening is no exception, providing the opportunity to celebrate those members who have been presented with well-deserved Awards... If you enter, this could be your special night!

RULES & ELIGIBILITY

• All entries must include name, company address, contact details, and category and up to 100 words of text stating the reasons behind the nomination. This should be included on the nomination form and emailed to robertflello@amps.org.uk or posted to

The AMPS Awards, Camden House Warwick Road Kenilworth Warwickshire CV8 1TH

• The AMPS Awards are open to any member of AMPS, including any employee of a member business

• Sponsors and their immediate family are not eligible to enter for the award that they are sponsoring

• Entries must be received by 11.59pm, 1 September 2019

• All finalists must agree to take part in publicity and to attend the Awards presentation on Thursday 28 November 2019 at The Midland Hotel in Manchester

• All finalists must agree to make themselves available if contacted by the panel

• The decision of the panel is final

• All applicants will be notified by e-mail that their entry has been received

• A shortlist of a maximum of 3 finalists will be drawn up for each nominated category

• Winners will be announced at the Awards ceremony

• Award winners and finalists may state in advertising/ promotional activity and on their stationery that they are winners or finalists, but this must include the category and the year in which the award was won. Artwork will be sent in the relevant formats for use by shortlisted finalists and the final winners.